The New Woman was a time where women got their freedom. They went to parties and got drunk some of the time. Also, they dressed differently and had
their hair short, but few of them had their hair long too.Then, there were some who were famous for what they did. Here is out wiki on the women who lived
ong ago, but were very influential to us now.
WOMEN JOBS FROM THE 1920s by, Erika In the 1920s women had a new and great opportunity just in front of them. For example had new job opportunities that would lead them on in the right direction not just for themselves but for their kids too. If the women could make more money than they would be able to get their kids and family more of the essentials that they need to live. For example if someone is sick then they would be able to afford to get the medicines that they need to get better. This is how the jobs in 1920s played such an important role to the jobs that women could get. In the cities of the 1920’s women had many different jobs then they do today. Women could be hired as telephone operators to manually connect people’s calls. This job had many benefits to it for example they had a ladies recreation room for their break were they could read, play the piano, or play with cards, and got free lunch and free medical care the reason why they got all this is because it was considered compensation for their low wages which was $15 a week. Woman could now have government jobs for example senator (Mrs. W.H. Felton was the first woman to serve as the U.S. senate.) Woman also could become Flappers. Flappers were a new type of provocative dancer that would dance at speakeasies which were like a bar or club which would sell alcohol that the government didn’t know about because during that time it was against the law to have alcohol. Also flappers didn’t follow traditional behavior patterns examples of these are that they would kiss their boyfriends while they played golf, sit behind the wheel of a fast car, and were proactive clothing. Another other thing is that in the city entertainment became very big part of the 1920’s culture which meant new jobs for women not just being a flapper in the show business. When the silent film came out there became a demand for more female actresses. Also another job that female’s pursuit was office jobs like a typist or a file clerk these were the stepping stone jobs that men use to have. Also during this time fashion became a big part of life which gave new jobs to women as sales clerks. Another thing is that the cosmetics industry opened many new doors of opportunities for women which later on boomed into a multimillion dollar industry. Other jobs that women could have and have had for decades before are nursing, teaching, work in factories, or work on the fields farming thinks like cotton, or tobacco. On the other hand if you were a woman who lived on a farm then you would have many different jobs then you would have had if you lived in the city. One example of this is the one of your jobs may have been to washing clothing, ironing clothing, cleaning the house, making coffee and hominy, baking, churned butter, and taking care of you kids. Also many of these homes didn’t have electricity until later so many of these actives had to be down by hand. Now people can see why it was why the 1920s was such an important time period to the woman. Not just because they were able to vote but because of the jobs that they were now able to have. Hanson, Erica. A cultural History of the United states Through the Decades the 1920s. 1st. California: Luccent Books, inc., 1999. 128. Print.
Flappers Fashion by, Trevor From 1913 the hem line Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel. The great fashion designer [[http://www.fashion-era.com/perfume_history.htm#Famous Early Perfumes|Gabrielle Chanel 1883-1971]] self styled herself to be known as Coco Chanel. By 1920 the silhouette of her clothing designs has come to be the epitome of 20's style. The work of other famous designers beside hers seemed old fashioned and outmoded belonging as they did to the pre World War One era. She promoted the styles we associate with flappers. She worked in neutral tones of beige, sand, cream, navy and black in soft fluid jersey fabrics cut with simple shapes that did not require corsetry or waist definition. They were clothes made for comfort and ease in wear making them revolutionary and quite modern. She was the Jean Muir or Donna Karan of her day and the originator of the LBD - that little black dress. Some fashion icons were Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, Claudette Colbert, Ginger Rogers, Katharine Hepburn, Rudolph Valentino, Cary Grant and Clark Gable. When flappers wanted to change their hair color they used whatever harsh chemicals to show more appeal. Most of the time they used silver nitrate. They used it to make their hair to darker or to hide the gray. But to much use turned your hair purple or green. 40 % of flappers dyed their hair. And before the “dyeing age” only 7 % dyed their hair. Hair dye has always been used for boosting self-confidents. http://www.fashion-era.com, http://www.hairfinder.com/info/haircolor-history2.htm
Flapper Hairstyles and Makeup by, Ashley
The Flapper era began with the look called "comme le garcon" which means “like a boy”. Women started to straighten and shorten skirts and dresses, get slimming figures and cutting their hair. Short hair was a big deal. Nice girls kept their hair long. If a women cut their hair it meant that they where admitting to not being virgins. But women went more than a step further than a boyish haircut and tendency to party; they began smoking in public, they outfit themselves with silk robes embroidered with vintage inspired floral motifs. They took off the restrictive girdles and corsets and bound their breasts flat to achieve an even more "masculine" look in their costumes, and they wore lots and lots of makeup. . Usually a lady with a lot makeup was considered a “hussy.” They applied makeup for one reason to attract men. Makeup was in its rawest form, because the market was just beginning to grow. Lipstick was the reddest red there were no other color options available. Some people looked at the redden skin from the makeup because diseases such as tuberculosis reddened the skin. Clear skin was rare and considered beautiful. Early mascara was a cake of wax that was melted and applied in a gluey mass to the lashes with an orange stick. Mabel Williams brother T.L Williams invented mascara. He mixed coal dust with petroleum jelly, added a brush for application, and called it Maybelline. Eye makeup consisted of kohl, which might be made of ingredients as strange as soot, lead and goose grease. Eyebrows were painfully thin. Women plucked out the entire eyebrow and penciled it back on higher than it had been in the first place. Makeup has made many improvements. It is still used to this very day. Hairstyles have also made many improvements. Hair can be long, short, wavy, curly, straight. It doesn’t matter women have the freedom to do whatever they want.
Zelda Fitzgerald was a ballerina, author, and painter. She was born in 1900 in Montgomery, Alabama. She attended the Margaret Booth School and Sidney Lanier High School. In 1918, she met Army Lieutenant F. Scott Fitzgerald. They married two years later and had their only child, Scottie, in October of 1921. At age 27, Zelda began to study ballet. Her hard work and determination she was making progress as a ballerina. However, she realized that the dream of being a ballerina was too late. Her paintings are mostly from the 1930’s and 1940’s. Zelda painted city scenes, fantasies, flowers, dancers, and religious subjects. Sadly, she died in 1948.
Zelda Fitzgerald
Clara Bow was known as the “jazz baby” and became one of Hollywood’s brightest lights of the ‘20s. She was the daughter of a mentally crazed mother and an abusive father. She went away from them by winning the 1921 Fame and Fortune contest, publishers of Clara’s favorite magazine. Clara was signed to B.P Schulberg’s Preferred Pictures in 1923, where she spent the next 2 years making low-budget films. In 1924, Brow was one of 13 young women chosen as a Western Association of Motion Picture. In 1927, Clara’s grand slam hit film, It, made Clara Brow Paramount’s number 1 star, and the most famous name is Hollywood. She retired from filming in 1933 to become a full-time wife and mother to her two sons. Clara Brow later died in 1965.
Margaret Mead was born on December 16, 1901 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is known for being an Anthropologist. An Anthropologist is someone who studies humans. They try to find out what the first human societies were like and how language and culture developed in the world. In the Physical division of Anthropologists study the features of modern human including their shape and size. Margaret Mead had received her Master’s Degree in Psychology from Barnard College in 1924. Margaret Mead had three husbands throughout her life. Her first marriage was to Luther Cressman in 1923. Then she divorced him in 1928. She then married Leo Fortune in 1928. They divorced in 1935. Her last marriage was with Gregory Bateson and they had one child together named Mary. Then in 1950, she divorced Gregory. For the rest of her life from then on, Margaret was not married. She died on November 15, 1978 in New York City. Amelia Earhart was born on July 24, 1897 in Kansas. At the age of three, she was sent to live with her grandmother because the woman needed someone to keep her company. She raised Amelia during her early childhood. At age five, she learned to read. When she was seven, Amelia’s father took the family to the St. Louis World’s Fair, where, riding the Ferris wheel, she learned she enjoyed heights. She learned to make things with her own hands. From the first grade, she attended the College Preparatory School; it was a tiny place with only about 30 students. In high school, cheerleading wasn’t for her, so she wanted to play on the basketball team. Happily, when Amelia was ten, she rejoined her parents. The death of Amelia’s grandparents was sudden; during this time, Amelia’s father lost his job and was forced to accept a position in St. Paul, which required the family to move to Minnesota. Earhart took her first ride in an airplane in 1920. Six months later, she bought her own airplane, a yellow Kinner Airster. She broke the women’s altitude record in 1922. She became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean on June 18-19, 1928.
Texas Guinan was born on January 12, 1884 in Waco, Texas. She was one of five siblings and attended Catholic school. When she was 16 years old, her family moved to Denver, Colorado, where she was in stage productions and played the organ in church. Guinan married John Moynahan, a cartoonist, on December 2, 1904. In 1906, she moved to New York City, where she was a chorus girl before making herself in New York Theater productions. In 1917, “Texas” Guinan made her film debut in a silent film called The Wildcat. Upon the introduction of Prohibition, she opened a speakeasy called the 300 Club. Guinan was arrested several times for serving alcohol and providing entertainment, but she always claimed that the patrons had brought liquor with them. Then, during the Great Depression, she took her show on the road. She made trips to Europe. While on the road for Too Hot for Paris, Guinan died on November 5, 1933 in Vancouver, British Colombia, at age 49. Her mother died at age 101 in 1959 and her father died at age 79 in 1935.
Babe Didrikson Zaharias was born on June 26, 1911 in Port Arthur, Texas. She was the sixth child of seven children. In 1915, the family moved to Beaumont, Texas, where the children became skilled performers on a rustic gymnasium their father built in the backyard. She played basketball in high school. Between 1930 and 1932, she led her team to two finals and a national championship. In the spring and summer of 1933, Babe was in California taking golf lessons. She married George Zaharias on December 23, 1938. In April of 1963, Babe underwent a colostomy to remove cancerous tissue. Between 1940 and 1950 she won every women's golf title, including the world championship (four times) and the United States Women's Open (three times). Sadly, she died in 1956.
Introduction:
The New Woman was a time where women got their freedom. They went to parties and got drunk some of the time. Also, they dressed differently and had
their hair short, but few of them had their hair long too.Then, there were some who were famous for what they did. Here is out wiki on the women who lived
ong ago, but were very influential to us now.
WOMEN JOBS FROM THE 1920s by, Erika
In the 1920s women had a new and great opportunity just in front of them. For example had new job opportunities that would lead them on in the right direction not just for themselves but for their kids too. If the women could make more money than they would be able to get their kids and family more of the essentials that they need to live. For example if someone is sick then they would be able to afford to get the medicines that they need to get better. This is how the jobs in 1920s played such an important role to the jobs that women could get.
In the cities of the 1920’s women had many different jobs then they do today. Women could be hired as telephone operators to manually connect people’s calls. This job had many benefits to it for example they had a ladies recreation room for their break were they could read, play the piano, or play with cards, and got free lunch and free medical care the reason why they got all this is because it was considered compensation for their low wages which was $15 a week. Woman could now have government jobs for example senator (Mrs. W.H. Felton was the first woman to serve as the U.S. senate.) Woman also could become Flappers. Flappers were a new type of provocative dancer that would dance at speakeasies which were like a bar or club which would sell alcohol that the government didn’t know about because during that time it was against the law to have alcohol. Also flappers didn’t follow traditional behavior patterns examples of these are that they would kiss their boyfriends while they played golf, sit behind the wheel of a fast car, and were proactive clothing. Another other thing is that in the city entertainment became very big part of the 1920’s culture which meant new jobs for women not just being a flapper in the show business. When the silent film came out there became a demand for more female actresses. Also another job that female’s pursuit was office jobs like a typist or a file clerk these were the stepping stone jobs that men use to have. Also during this time fashion became a big part of life which gave new jobs to women as sales clerks. Another thing is that the cosmetics industry opened many new doors of opportunities for women which later on boomed into a multimillion dollar industry. Other jobs that women could have and have had for decades before are nursing, teaching, work in factories, or work on the fields farming thinks like cotton, or tobacco.
On the other hand if you were a woman who lived on a farm then you would have many different jobs then you would have had if you lived in the city. One example of this is the one of your jobs may have been to washing clothing, ironing clothing, cleaning the house, making coffee and hominy, baking, churned butter, and taking care of you kids. Also many of these homes didn’t have electricity until later so many of these actives had to be down by hand.
Now people can see why it was why the 1920s was such an important time period to the woman. Not just because they were able to vote but because of the jobs that they were now able to have.
Hanson, Erica. A cultural History of the United states Through the Decades the 1920s. 1st. California: Luccent Books, inc., 1999. 128. Print.
Sherman, Fraser. "http://www.ehow.com/info_7747610_jobs-women-1920s.html." Jobs for Women in the 1920s. eHow, January 8, 2011. Web. 11 Mar 2011.
Flappers Fashion by, Trevor
From 1913 the hem line Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel. The great fashion designer [[http://www.fashion-era.com/perfume_history.htm#Famous Early Perfumes|Gabrielle Chanel 1883-1971]] self styled herself to be known as Coco Chanel. By 1920 the silhouette of her clothing designs has come to be the epitome of 20's style. The work of other famous designers beside hers seemed old fashioned and outmoded belonging as they did to the pre World War One era.
She promoted the styles we associate with flappers. She worked in neutral tones of beige, sand, cream, navy and black in soft fluid jersey fabrics cut with simple shapes that did not require corsetry or waist definition. They were clothes made for comfort and ease in wear making them revolutionary and quite modern. She was the Jean Muir or Donna Karan of her day and the originator of the LBD - that little black dress. Some fashion icons were Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, Claudette Colbert, Ginger Rogers, Katharine Hepburn, Rudolph Valentino, Cary Grant and Clark Gable.
When flappers wanted to change their hair color they used whatever harsh chemicals to show more appeal. Most of the time they used silver nitrate. They used it to make their hair to darker or to hide the gray. But to much use turned your hair purple or green.
40 % of flappers dyed their hair. And before the “dyeing age” only 7 % dyed their hair. Hair dye has always been used for boosting self-confidents.
http://www.fashion-era.com, http://www.hairfinder.com/info/haircolor-history2.htm
Flapper Hairstyles and Makeup by, Ashley
The Flapper era began with the look called "comme le garcon" which means “like a boy”. Women started to straighten and shorten skirts and dresses, get slimming figures and cutting their hair. Short hair was a big deal. Nice girls kept their hair long. If a women cut their hair it meant that they where admitting to not being virgins. But women went more than a step further than a boyish haircut and tendency to party; they began smoking in public, they outfit themselves with silk robes embroidered with vintage inspired floral motifs. They took off the restrictive girdles and corsets and bound their breasts flat to achieve an even more "masculine" look in their costumes, and they wore lots and lots of makeup.
.
Usually a lady with a lot makeup was considered a “hussy.” They applied makeup for one reason to attract men. Makeup was in its rawest form, because the market was just beginning to grow. Lipstick was the reddest red there were no other color options available. Some people looked at the redden skin from the makeup because diseases such as tuberculosis reddened the skin. Clear skin was rare and considered beautiful.
Early mascara was a cake of wax that was melted and applied in a gluey mass to the lashes with an orange stick. Mabel Williams brother T.L Williams invented mascara. He mixed coal dust with petroleum jelly, added a brush for application, and called it Maybelline. Eye makeup consisted of kohl, which might be made of ingredients as strange as soot, lead and goose grease. Eyebrows were painfully thin. Women plucked out the entire eyebrow and penciled it back on higher than it had been in the first place.
Makeup has made many improvements. It is still used to this very day. Hairstyles have also made many improvements. Hair can be long, short, wavy, curly, straight. It doesn’t matter women have the freedom to do whatever they want.
http://www.freebeautytips.org/1920s-hair-makeup.html#
Flappers and the New American Woman, Catherine Gourley, Chapter 4
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The New Woman Bios by Christina
Zelda Fitzgerald was a ballerina, author, and painter. She was born in 1900 in Montgomery, Alabama. She attended the Margaret Booth School and Sidney Lanier High School. In 1918, she met Army Lieutenant F. Scott Fitzgerald. They married two years later and had their only child, Scottie, in October of 1921. At age 27, Zelda began to study ballet. Her hard work and determination she was making progress as a ballerina. However, she realized that the dream of being a ballerina was too late. Her paintings are mostly from the 1930’s and 1940’s. Zelda painted city scenes, fantasies, flowers, dancers, and religious subjects. Sadly, she died in 1948.
Clara Bow was known as the “jazz baby” and became one of Hollywood’s brightest lights of the ‘20s. She was the daughter of a mentally crazed mother and an abusive father. She went away from them by winning the 1921 Fame and Fortune contest, publishers of Clara’s favorite magazine. Clara was signed to B.P Schulberg’s Preferred Pictures in 1923, where she spent the next 2 years making low-budget films. In 1924, Brow was one of 13 young women chosen as a Western Association of Motion Picture. In 1927, Clara’s grand slam hit film, It, made Clara Brow Paramount’s number 1 star, and the most famous name is Hollywood. She retired from filming in 1933 to become a full-time wife and mother to her two sons. Clara Brow later died in 1965.
Margaret Mead was born on December 16, 1901 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is known for being an Anthropologist. An Anthropologist is someone who studies humans. They try to find out what the first human societies were like and how language and culture developed in the world. In the Physical division of Anthropologists study the features of modern human including their shape and size. Margaret Mead had received her Master’s Degree in Psychology from Barnard College in 1924. Margaret Mead had three husbands throughout her life. Her first marriage was to Luther Cressman in 1923. Then she divorced him in 1928. She then married Leo Fortune in 1928. They divorced in 1935. Her last marriage was with Gregory Bateson and they had one child together named Mary. Then in 1950, she divorced Gregory. For the rest of her life from then on, Margaret was not married. She died on November 15, 1978 in New York City.
Amelia Earhart was born on July 24, 1897 in Kansas. At the age of three, she was sent to live with her grandmother because the woman needed someone to keep her company. She raised Amelia during her early childhood. At age five, she learned to read. When she was seven, Amelia’s father took the family to the St. Louis World’s Fair, where, riding the Ferris wheel, she learned she enjoyed heights. She learned to make things with her own hands. From the first grade, she attended the College Preparatory School; it was a tiny place with only about 30 students. In high school, cheerleading wasn’t for her, so she wanted to play on the basketball team. Happily, when Amelia was ten, she rejoined her parents. The death of Amelia’s grandparents was sudden; during this time, Amelia’s father lost his job and was forced to accept a position in St. Paul, which required the family to move to Minnesota. Earhart took her first ride in an airplane in 1920. Six months later, she bought her own airplane, a yellow Kinner Airster. She broke the women’s altitude record in 1922. She became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean on June 18-19, 1928.
Texas Guinan was born on January 12, 1884 in Waco, Texas. She was one of five siblings and attended Catholic school. When she was 16 years old, her family moved to Denver, Colorado, where she was in stage productions and played the organ in church. Guinan married John Moynahan, a cartoonist, on December 2, 1904. In 1906, she moved to New York City, where she was a chorus girl before making herself in New York Theater productions. In 1917, “Texas” Guinan made her film debut in a silent film called The Wildcat. Upon the introduction of Prohibition, she opened a speakeasy called the 300 Club. Guinan was arrested several times for serving alcohol and providing entertainment, but she always claimed that the patrons had brought liquor with them. Then, during the Great Depression, she took her show on the road. She made trips to Europe. While on the road for Too Hot for Paris, Guinan died on November 5, 1933 in Vancouver, British Colombia, at age 49. Her mother died at age 101 in 1959 and her father died at age 79 in 1935.
Babe Didrikson Zaharias was born on June 26, 1911 in Port Arthur, Texas. She was the sixth child of seven children. In 1915, the family moved to Beaumont, Texas, where the children became skilled performers on a rustic gymnasium their father built in the backyard. She played basketball in high school. Between 1930 and 1932, she led her team to two finals and a national championship. In the spring and summer of 1933, Babe was in California taking golf lessons. She married George Zaharias on December 23, 1938. In April of 1963, Babe underwent a colostomy to remove cancerous tissue. Between 1940 and 1950 she won every women's golf title, including the world championship (four times) and the United States Women's Open (three times). Sadly, she died in 1956.
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